On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police department massacred 11 members of Ramona Africa’s family, including 5 children, by dropping a bomb on their home. Ramona was the sole adult survivor of the incident. Ramona speaks of the MOVE organization, the legal system and the prison industrial complex. filmed by Eric Angell at Hamline University in April.

FROM MEXICO CITY: These are photos of a demonstration about 20 of us did at the United States Embassy here in Mexico City on May 13, 2009 in support of the MOVE 9, Mumia and other pps and to demand justice for the May 13 massacre. Of course we couldn't pass up the opportunity to oppose Plan Mexico, Mexican military and police training by the US and Israel, and the new FBI center they're building on the border for hundreds of agents.

I see 2337 West Monroe, in the city where I was born and raised, Chicago. 1969. Dozens of Chicago Police working with the FBI forcefully entered the home there, firing and executing a sleeping Fred Hampton. Mark Clark was able to respond with one shot after police entered the home. In Philadelphia, years later, Police Commissioner Gregor Sambor used the same line of defense: MOVE fired first with automatic weaponry! However, "the only weapons found in MOVE’s house were two pistols, a shotgun, and a .22 caliber rifle: no automatic weapons."

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As Born Black Magazine reports, on May 13, 1985, the City of Philadelphia launched a military assault on the MOVE Organization's home at 6221 Osage Ave. in West Philadelphia, officially done to solve a neighborhood dispute. That morning police shot over 10,000 rounds of bullets in 90 minutes, and detonated explosives on the front, and both sides of their house. Mayor Wilson Goode then refused to negotiate with MOVE during an afternoon standstill, and a State Police helicopter dropped a C-4 bomb, illegally supplied by the FBI, on the roof. The bomb started a fire that city officials allowed to burn, and eventually grew to destroy 60 homes: the entire block of a middle-class black neighborhood. This assault killed 5 children and 6 adults, including MOVE founder John Africa. 13-year old Birdie Africa and 30-year old Ramona Africa were the only survivors, after they dodged police gunfire and escaped from the fire with permanent burn scars.

On Saturday, May 16, MOVE is marking the 24th anniversary with a Philadelphia demonstration calling for the release of the eight remaining "MOVE 9" prisoners, who are currently eligible for parole, although Eddie Africa was denied parole last week.

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RALLY TO FREE THE MOVE 9! Saturday, May 16, 12-3, 11th & Market Streets, Philadelphia. Contact: onamovellja@aol.com, 215 387 4107

Please help today by contacting the parole board.

An action alert has just been sent out by MOVE supporters to help the remaining eight of the MOVE 9 prisoners, who are now having parole hearings. Last year an online petition and letter campaign was initiated, but despite this, the parole board denied parole to everyone(remember that the women never even faced weapons charges!) officially for many unfair reasons including a "lack of remorse" for a crime for which they have always maintained their innocence.

Three major confrontations between MOVE or MOVE sympathizers and the city police involved fatalities: the city's shootout with MOVE members in the Powelton compound Aug. 8, 1978, which resulted in the death of police officer James Ramp; the encounter Dec. 9, 1981 involving Mumia Abu-Jamal and police officer Daniel Faulkner, which left Abu-Jamal wounded and Faulkner dead; and the infamous bombing of MOVE's Osage Avenue house May 13, 1985, which left 11 MOVE members dead, among them Africa.

Two leading members of the Philadelphia-based MOVE organization, Pam Africa and Ramona Africa, spoke at a public meeting in Detroit on Aug. 2 on the continuing efforts to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the MOVE 9.